Originally posted in Microsoft Azure Blog. Data in the cloud is growing at an exponential pace, and we have been working on ways to help you manage the cost of storing this data. An important aspect of managing storage costs is tiering your data based on attributes like frequency of access, retention period, etc. A…

(Originally posted at: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/storage-explorer-march-update/) Today we’re happy to announce the March update of Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer (preview), which includes support for Tables and Queues. After our first release, we received hundreds of requests asking for Table and Queue support. Based on this feedback, we’re extremely excited to share this new version of Storage Explorer…

We are excited to announce the preview of Azure Storage Service Encryption for data at rest. This capability is one of the features most requested by enterprise customers looking to protect sensitive data as part of their regulatory or compliance needs. Storage Service Encryption automatically encrypts your Azure Blob storage data prior to persisting to…

It’s time for Build 2016, and the Azure Storage team has several exciting announcements to make. This blog post provides an overview of new announcements and updates on existing programs. We hope that these new features and updates will enable you to make better use of Azure Storage for your services, applications and other needs….

In the previous announcement post for DMLib 0.1.0, we committed that the newest release of the Data Movement Library would support more advanced features. Great news, those are now available and include the following: Download, upload, and copy directories (local file directories, Azure Blob virtual directories, Azure File directories) Transfer directories in recursive mode Transfer…

Shared Access Signatures (SAS) enable customers to delegate access rights to data within their storage accounts without having to share their storage account keys. In late 2015 we announced a new type of SAS token called Account SAS that provided support for the Blob and File Services. Today we are pleased to announce that Account…

Summary The Storage Service uses versioning to govern what operations are available, how a given request will be processed and what will be returned. In 2014, we announced that specific versions of the Microsoft Azure Storage Service would be removed on December 9th, 2015. Based on your feedback, we are now making the following changes…

We are excited to announce preview availability of the client side encryption feature in the Azure Storage Java Client Library. This preview enables you to encrypt and decrypt your data inside client applications before uploading to and after downloading from Azure Storage. The feature is available for Blobs, Queues and Tables. We also support integration with…

Since AzCopy was first released, a large number of customers have requested programmatic access to AzCopy. We are pleased to announce a new open-sourced Azure Storage data movement library for .NET (DML for short). This library is based on the core data movement framework that powers AzCopy. The library is designed for high-performance, reliable and…